Baker Street Irregulars | Baker Street Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit The Special Operations Executive (SOE), tasked by Winston Churchill to "Set Europe ablaze" during World War II had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmes 's fictional group of boys employed "to go everywhere, see everything, and overhear everyone," as they spied about London. The Baker Street Irregulars is a society of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that was founded in 1934. The Irregulars appear as the main characters in Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, a 2006 novel by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin. Wiggins is again the leader of a gang of street urchins. Other major characters include Ozzie, a scrivener's apprentice; Rohan, an Indian boy; Elliot, from an Irish tailor's family; Pilar, a Gypsy girl; and little Alfie. The Irregulars help solve the mysterious deaths of three tightrope walkers at a circus.

Hazel Meade's troop of children serve as couriers and lookouts in the "Baker Street Irregulars" during the lunar revolution of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). Two BBC television series have been made starring the Irregulars: The Baker Street Boys (1983) and Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007). Comics involving the Irregulars include The Irregulars from Dark Horse Comics, [1] and Les Quatre de Baker Street [2] In June 2010 it was announced that Franklin Watts books, a part of Hachette Children's Books planned to release a series of four children's graphic novels in spring 2011 called Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars set during the three years that Sherlock Holmes was believed dead, between The Adventure of the Final Problem and The Adventure of the Empty House by writer Tony Lee and artist Dan Boultwood. In the BBC modern adaptation Sherlock , Holmes uses a wide network of homeless people as an information network. In the CBS modern adaptation Elementary , Holmes uses Teddy and his crew of street venders as informants to help him track down M .

Holmes also refers to Harlan Emple, a maths experts whose talents he occasionally employs, as "one of my Irregulars" when Emple is a suspect in a murder. Baker Street Regular - TV Tropes Baker Street Regular You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share At this moment there was a loud ring at the bell, and I could hear Mrs. Hudson, our landlady, raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay. "By heavens, Holmes," I said, half rising, "I believe that they are really after us." "No, it's not quite so bad as that. It is the unofficial force - the Baker Street irregulars." As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street Arabs . There was some show of discipline among them, despite their tumultuous entry, for they instantly drew up in line and stood facing us with expectant faces.

One of their number, taller and older than the others, stood forward with an air of lounging superiority which was very funny in such a disreputable little scarecrow. — Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 126) Sometimes, a detective or police officer, no matter how great, simply needs help from time to time. It's no big deal, really. The Baker Street Regular is that child that finds himself in the situations with the hero, especially the dangerous ones. Your first run in with the Baker Street Regular is likely while he is searching through the hero's home or office or stealing something to eat because he cannot afford it . If he is not related to the hero in any way, expect him to have no family, except for maybe a sibling or two, but he is almost always the eldest, and almost always male. If he is an orphan, after scratching his back a couple times, expect him to be forever indebted to you and to get you out of a sticky situation in the nick of time, but don't expect him to just leave. You're stuck with him.

After you manage to win the respect of the Baker Street Regular, he will be an invaluable tool and assistant to your group. Life on the street is going to make him able to hear rumors that you won't be able to while you are out on your investigations. He is always good at hiding, especially in situations where the Big Bad is nearby. The Baker Street Regular is a pun on the Trope Namer , the Baker Street Irregulars, a mob of orphaned street urchins often employed by Sherlock Holmes to gather rumors, spy, and do various odd jobs. In return for their discretion and loyalty he paid what was, to them, an outrageous sum of money . See also The Informant , who is usually somewhat older and portrayed rather less sympathetically. Examples: open/close all folders Anime and Manga Subverted in Black Butler . Doll, aside from not being the eldest (though that is justified due to her elder "siblings" being Genre Blind ), gives Ciel help, covers for him, and fits this trope to a T before Ciel goes into an episode and orders for her death. In Detective Conan , Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, the Detective Boys.

They're even referred to as Baker Street Regulars in an arc. They literally play this when they entered the cyberspace Victorian England AU in the Non-Serial Movie Phantom of Baker Street. As the plot approaches the end of Slayers Next , one of these attempts to pickpocket the party, but eventually joins them and befriends Martina. Subverted, as he's the Big Bad . Comics In the Post-Crisis retelling of his origin, this is how Jason Todd first met Batman . He was trying to steal the Batmobile's hubcaps at the time. The Newsboy Legion are nothing if not this trope. Primarily they are this for The Guardian , but they also work with Jimmy Olsen and Superman . Film Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . The street urchin Toto in American Ninja 2 , who never forgets to demand money for service rendered. The kid Manco pays to keep tabs on Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More fits the bill. Averted with the Blue Blaze Irregulars in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension .

They're not all kids, they're not all urchins or orphans, and there is (according to the book, anyway) a training program, required progress in education, and other requirements. Literature The Baker Street Irregulars from Sherlock Holmes , who inspired the trope name. Deconstructed in the officially-approved pastiche The House of Silk , when one of them gets killed, brutally, because they took a mission. Akechi Kogoro had several as well, including Yoshio Kobayashi, who later became famous for something else entirely . Solar Pons has the Praed Street Irregulars. Nobby Nobbs is introduced in Night Watch as one of these. Vimes sees Nobby spying on him for a whole slew of people, and begins paying Nobby to, in turn, spy on them. Sometimes members of the Beggar's Guild, although largely adults and therefore on the very fringes of the trope, act as this for Lord Vetinari as one of many information-gathering channels (it's implied that someone who may in some small way be connected to him spreads rumors that he pays for information, so that they'll come volunteer it to him instead of him needing to send someone looking).

It's implied Vimes occasionally gets information from them as well. Ostap Bender from Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov's The Twelve Chairs employed them to track one of the titular, possibly treasure-holding chairs. Ben Fischer had apparently started as this in his backstory in Hell House , before his powers awakened. In the third book of the Bardic Voices series, The Eagle and the Nightingale, Nightingale hires a group of street children to be her eyes and ears. In Honor Harrington while on a secret mission to Mesa Victor Cachat employees a number of street urchins to serve as a spies and couriers. Varys Kingfisher, the royal spymaster in A Song of Ice and Fire , is implied to employ mute, literate children who wander the sewers and low places of King's Landing as his "little birds." Live Action TV The Pretender episode "Back from the Dead... Again" has Bruno who gets recruited by Jarod to help him for the episode. Fittingly for a reimagining of Sherlock Holmes himself, Sherlock has Bill Wiggins, a heroin addict who doubles as a chemistry genius.

The Trope Namer also does not go un-riffed; the pilot episode introduces Sherlock's "homeless network," who are an obvious stand-in for the Irregulars. He also once gets information on the spray-can used to paint a cryptic message on a wall from a graffiti artist who some fans think is supposed to be Banksy , if not a cameo from the real Banksy As Himself . Dirk Gently knows a Hollywood Hacker who happens to be twelve. And gets paid with cigarettes. Newspaper Comics Dick Tracy, Jr, from Dick Tracy , is one of the examples of a street urchin who gets adopted. Also appears in the film. Modesty Blaise : Samantha 'Sam' Brown is an East End kid who attends a martial arts class run by Willie. She and her gang of street urchins sometimes fill this role for Willie and Modesty. Theatre Billy, the page boy to William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes , who was adapted from a similar character in the original Holmes novels. Video Games The Baker Street Irregulars - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia The Baker Street Irregulars The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) is the very first sherlockian society created in 1934.

Contents 5 The resigning of Isaac Asimov History Born almost with the first story of Sherlock Holmes, the Sherlockiana has been played individually until 1934, when American Christopher Morley (1890-1957), a man of many faces and member of the Algonquin Round Table (literary club that met at the New York hotel Algonquin), created a new dining club. Gather a group of friends for a meal where the conversation was going well, in a club or society, was the pastime of Christopher Morley . As Ronald A. Knox , he and his brothers had always been fascinated by Sherlock Holmes. In 1930, shortly after the death of Conan Doyle, the American publisher Doubleday published The Complete Sherlock Holmes, with a preface by Christopher Morley. It was the first time that the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in one time (in two volumes), resulting in a new interest by the public for the detective. At the same time, appeared a brilliant short biography of Dr. Watson by S. C. Roberts and a biography The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett .

Also, at the end of 1933, the Sherlock Holmes play by William Gillette was played in the United States, with the success that we know... All the conditions were met for the birth of a sherlockian society. On 6th january 1934, a group of enthusiasts met at Duane hotel on Madison Avenue in New York. Most of the participants came from the Three Hours for Lunch Club and the Grillparzer Morals-Police Association (Grillparzer Sittenpolizei Verein). This new group did not yet choose a name. The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) appeared a few days later in an article by Christopher Morley published on 27th january 1934 in his column "Bowling Green" of The Saturday Review of Literature. The name is related, of course, to the band of street urchins who frequently helped Holmes in his investigations. By this time, it was decided that each meeting will begin with a toast dedicated to the Woman (Irene Adler, a character of A Scandal in Bohemia who defeated Sherlock Holmes).

On 3rd and 17th february 1934, Christopher Morley published several texts, including the Constitution of the BSI and the Buy-Laws (not By-Laws as usual when speaking of the statutes), written by Elmer Davis. Constitution The name of this society shall be the Baker Street Irregulars. Article II Its purpose shall be the study of the Sacred Writings. Article III All persons shall be eligible for membership who pass an examination in the Sacred Writings set by officers of the society, and who are considered otherwise suitable. Article IV The offices shall be: a Gasogene, a Tantalus, and a Commissionaire. The duties of the Gasogene shall be those commonly performed by a President. The duties of the Tantalus shall be those commonly performed by a Secretary. The duties of the Commissionaire shall be to telephone down for ice, White Rock, and whatever else may be required and available; to conduct all negotiations with waiters; and to assess the members pro rata for the cost of same.

Buy-Laws (1) An annual meeting shall be held on January 6th, at which those toasts shall be drunk which were published in the Saturday Review of January 27th, 1934; after which the members shall drink at will. (2) The current round shall be bought by any member who fails to identify, by title of story and context, any quotation from the Sacred Writings submitted by any other member. Qualification A.—If two or more members fail so to identify, a round shall be bought by each of those so failing. Qualification B.—If the submitter of the quotation, upon challenge, fails to identify it correctly, he shall buy the round. (3) Special meetings may be called at any time or any place by any one of three members, two of whom shall constitute a quorum. Qualification A. — If said two are of opposite sexes, they shall use care in select-ing the place of meeting, to avoid misinterpretation (or interpretation, either, for that matter). Qualification B.

— If such two persons of opposite sexes be clients of the Personal Column of the Saturday Review, the foregoing does not apply; such persons being presumed to let their consciences be their guides. (4) All other business shall be left for the monthly meeting. (5) There shall be no monthly meeting. The crossword grid The constitution refers to an examination test of the sacred texts. In fact, the only known test was a crossword puzzle created by Frank V. Morley (Christopher's brother) in the smoking room of a Cunard ocean liner during a boring transatlantic crossing. The grid was published on 3rd may 1934 in the Saturday Review of Literature. Candidates had two weeks to fill it correctly and completely, thus automatically become members of the BSI and were invited to attend the first dinner. Fifteen grids were fully filled and received. Christopher Morley responded favorably to all those who came from men, in a letter dated 29 may 1934 which was also addressed to friends of Morley, members of the Three Hours for Lunch Club that had yet not completed the grid test.

It is important to note that one of the qualifiers was not allowed to take part in the meal simply because she was a woman, Katherine McMahon, who was finally admitted as a member of the BSI in... 1991! The first members Finally, Tuesday 5 june, at 18:30, the gentlemen met to dine at the famous Christ Cella restaurant in New York (144 East 45th Street). The BSI was officially born. Of thirty-ish people invited, only eight were present: Christopher Morley , Malcolm Johnson, Allan Price, Officer Harvey, Earle Walbridge (which was the only one who attended all meetings until his death in 1961), Robert Keith Leavitt, Frank Henry and William S. Hall. The next meeting was held friday 7 december 1934 (one month before the Sherlock Holmes' birthday). However, the second Annual Dinner occurred on the night of 6th january 1936. Thereafter, the meetings always took place on Friday nights closest to the 6th of january.

On the 7 december 1934, it appears that there were 18 or 20 attendees including William Gillette (the actor who played Holmes on stage for over thirty years), Frederic Dorr Steele (the illustrator American of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes for Collier's magazine), H. W. Bell, Gene Tunney and Vincent Starrett . Alexander Woollcott was also present although not belonging to the BSI (he was the guest of Vincent Starrett). This hospitality did not prevent Woollcott to write a very mocking article about the BSI in the 29 december 1934 issue of the journal The New Yorker. Famous members included Rex Stout, and later, Edgar W. Smith (vice-president of the General Motors) in 1938, the presidents of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942-1945) and Harry S. Truman, the writer Isaac Asimov (but never Winston Churchill as some have written). From 1946, the BSI began producing The Baker Street Journal. This quarterly journal devoted to the Sherlockiana is a major sherlockian publications in the United States (with a worldwide distribution).

Dinner Over the years, BSI has taken the habit of meeting once a year. It is a tuxedo party taking place on the nearest Friday the day of the anniversary of the birth of Sherlock Holmes (set on 6 january 1854) unless this date is too close to the New Year, in this case, the evening is postponed to the following week. The course of the dinner has also become an institution over the years. Are invited all members of the BSI, as well as a limited number of guests handpicked (which may well one day be admitted as members). The dinner is always followed by a series of communications both humorous and erudite, a quiz, a poetry reading or a small musical performance. The evening ends with the revelation of the list of a half-dozen guests invested as new members (in BSI, you are granted the title of member, you can't get it by paying a membership fee) and other awards given to individuals who have contributed to the Sherlockiana . Scion societies Though the Constitution and Buy-Laws of the BSI didn't planned that, groups of sherlockians have gathered in Scion Societies throughout the United States.

These are societies that take model on BSI and declare themselves affiliates of the New York original, still not officially recognized by BSI. The first scion society was founded by Richard W. Clarke, The Five Orange Pips of Westchester County (New York) and met for the first time in 1935, only a year after the first dinner of the BSI. Meetings are irregular since. They are held in evening dress, they are giving canonical toasts and there gives scholar conferences on Sherlock Holmes topics. The concept is good, and, five years later, James Keddie Sr. founded The Speckled Band of Boston, the first scion society outside New York. The 40s saw the formation of scions in several other large cities: The Hounds of Baskerville in Chicago (1943), The Six Napoleons in Baltimore (1946) and The Sons of the Copper Beeches in Philadelphia (1947), which are still active today. Women fight for membership In the tradition of BSI, all these societies were for men only. But Sherlockiana is not the appanage of men and the gender policy was not to the liking of sherlockian ladies.

It took until 1968 to see a reaction, but what a reaction! A group of female students at the University New Haven's Albertus Magnus, with the written permission of the mayor of New York, launched a striking operation against the annual dinner of the BSI by sitting in front of the meeting location. They refused to move until they had a meeting with the representatives of this "macho" society. Women have not yet been admitted to the dinner but, instead, were invited to create their own sherlockian society. Shortly after, The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes (ASH) was created. This name was chosen in honor of Irene Adler, the woman who managed to trap Holmes and for which he always had great respect. Respect for women was more belated for the BSI as the first women to receive the BSI investiture were those who conducted their sitting almost a quarter of a century earlier... En 1991, Thomas L. Stix, Jr., Wiggins (i.e. President) of the BSI, granted membership to six women. Thus, in january 1992, for the first time, women participated as members at the annual dinner and two new women were investitured.

Since then, this mix was never debated. But it would be wrong to say that there were never a woman at the BSI meetings. A woman was invited to each meeting to receive the homage when Toast to The Woman, but during the cocktail before dinner. However, she was not allowed to participate to the meal (today it is). Rathbone always refused to be a BSI Basil Rathbone hated all Sherlock Holmes fans and The Baker Street Irregulars particularly. Cataloged as "the actor who personified Sherlock Holmes in movies", he always thought that this role had cost him his career. He could not stand that people recognized him in the street shouting: "Hi Sherlock, how's Dr. Watson?" For this reason, several times, he refused the BSI dinner invitations in New York. Against his will, he was nevertheless appointed as honorary member of the BSI in Los Angeles in the early 40s, but he accepted only one membership, those of The Maiwand Jezails (USA) during a meeting of this society at which he attended because of friendship with one of the organizers.

[1] The resigning of Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov was investured BSI in 1973 but he left in 1990 after the death of Julian Wolff considering that there was no reason to stay in this society that he didn't appreciate that much. ↑ Source: basilrathbone.net from Richard D. Lesh, "Basil Rathbone's 3-Day Visit to the Wayne Campus," Shoso-in Bulletin, Vol. 6 (1996): 40-42. Baker Street Irregulars - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki More info on Baker Street Irregulars Wikis Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Top rankings for Baker Street Irregulars 13rd Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Baker Street Irregulars are any of several different groups, all named after the original, from various Sherlock Holmes stories. Contents 6 External links Original The original irregulars were a group of fictional characters featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

They were a group of street urchins who helped Holmes out from time to time. The head of the group was called Wiggins . Holmes paid them a shilling a day (plus expenses), with a guinea prize (worth one pound and one shilling) for a vital clue. They first appeared in Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet (1886). They also appear in the next novel, The Sign of the Four ; one of the chapters from this book is called The Baker Street Irregulars. Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive (SOE), tasked by Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze" during World War II , had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called "the Baker Street Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of boys employed "to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone," as they spied about London. Modern organization The Baker Street Irregulars is also the name of an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Doubleday Editor Christopher Morley . Formal members (known as "investitures" & bearing club titles derived from the Holmes stories) have included mystery writers & critics William S.

Baring-Gould , Anthony Boucher , Frederic Dannay , August Derleth , John Gardner , Richard Lancelyn Green , Howard Haycraft, and Rex Stout ; science fiction and fantasy writers Poul Anderson , Fletcher Pratt , Isaac Asimov and Neil Gaiman ; sportswriter Red Smith ; mathematician Banesh Hoffmann ; and actors Douglas Wilmer and Curtis Armstrong . [1] Honorary members include Holmes-enthusiast Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman . [2] The organization continues to convene every January in New York City for an annual dinner, which forms part of a weekend of celebration and study involving other Sherlockian groups and individuals as well. The present leader of it is Michael Whelan of Indianapolis, Indiana . The BSI, as it calls itself, is considered the preeminent Sherlockian group in the United States. There are also "scion societies" approved by the BSI in dozens of local communities. A list of these scions is maintained on Sherlocktron , a Sherlock Holmes website.

Most scion societies welcome new members, but the BSI does not accept applications for membership -- instead, membership and the awarding of an "Irregular Shilling" comes as an honor to those who have made a name for themselves in local groups or in Sherlockian publications. The BSI has published The Baker Street Journal, an "irregular quarterly of Sherlockiana", since 1946. Influence on other popular culture Dorothy L. Sayers 's fictional sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey employs a similar organization in the 1920s and 1930s known as the " Cattery " a secretarial agency that sends women on undercover assignments. Like Holmes, Wimsey makes use of a class of persons who can go anywhere without being suspected - in the case of post- World War I Britain, unmarried or widowed women between the ages of 20 and 60. Robert A. Heinlein picked up the idea in his novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress . Those irregulars carried out similar surveillance in the run-up to a revolution, working for a computer named Mycroft , named after Sherlock Holmes' smarter older brother.

A 21 year-old Sherlock Holmes is inspired to use street urchins to form the Baker Street irregulars during an incident found in Enter the Lion: a Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes, a manuscript "edited" by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright (1979). The irregulars appear in the animated series Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century , though these are teenagers, and presumably older than the ones of the Doyle canon. As in the stories, the unofficial leader is named Wiggins, an aspiring pugilist and soccer player. Holmes practically deduces his entire life story simply by noting his walk and the stains on his clothes during their first meeting. A self-styled cockney girl and a parapalegic computer nerd form the other members of the group. The irregulars also appear as the main characters in Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, a 2006 novel by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin. Wiggins is again the leader of a gang of street urchins.

Other major characters include Ozzie, a scrivener 's apprentice; Rohan, an Indian boy; Elliot, from an Irish tailor's family; Pilar, a Gypsy girl; and little Alfie. The Irregulars help solve the mysterious deaths of three tightrope walkers at a circus. Two BBC television series have been made starring the irregulars: The Baker Street Boys (1983) and Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007). In Justin Richards ' Invisible Detective books, Art, Jonny, Meg and Flinch act as the Baker Street irregulars to private detective Brandon Lake, whom they made up to use as a cover for their own crime fighting egos, since nobody's going to trust four kids to solve mysteries. Terry Pratchett 's Discworld novels involve a parody of the irregulars, called the Cable Street Particulars, who serve as a special task force to Vimes' Night Watch. They're a revival of a more vicious task force employed by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in darker times.

A similar concept is used in Fritz Lang 's film M , in which criminals trying to catch a serial killer use the beggar's union - itself an idea Lang admitted to borrowing from The Threepenny Opera - to search for clues across the city, because the beggars won't draw attention since they're already omnipresent and generally ignored. Chris Malloy has a magical version of the BSI called the Scheherazade Irregulars for his "Long Step" books in the Wizard Academies young adult series -- A Special Kind of Talent and Never Drop Your Wand. The stories involve juvenile delinquent wizards at a magical school in London who solve mysteries too magical for Scotland Yard. References Baker Street Irregulars : definition of Baker Street Irregulars and synonyms of Baker Street Irregulars (English) Original Figure of a "Baker Street Irregular" at the Sherlock Holmes Museum , London The original irregulars were a group of fictional characters featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories. They were a group of street urchins who helped Holmes out from time to time. The head of the group was called Wiggins .

Holmes paid them a shilling a day (plus expenses), with a guinea prize (worth one pound and one shilling) for a vital clue. They first appeared in Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet (written 1886, published 1887). They also appear in the next novel, The Sign of the Four ; one of the chapters from this book is called The Baker Street Irregulars. Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive (SOE), tasked by Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze" during World War II , had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called "the Baker Street Irregulars" [1] after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of boys employed "to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone," as they spied about London. [2] Modern organizations This section appears to be written like an advertisement . Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links . (January 2010) The Baker Street Irregulars is also the name of an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Doubleday Editor Christopher Morley .

Formal members are known as "investitures" and bear club titles derived from the Holmes stories. The organization convenes every January in New York City for an annual dinner, which forms part of a weekend of celebration and study involving other Sherlockian groups and enthusiasts. The present leader (referred to in group jargon as the "Wiggins") is Michael Whelan of Indianapolis, Indiana . The leader is elected for life and selects his successor. The BSI, as it calls itself, was once considered the preeminent Sherlockian group in the United States. There are also "scion societies" approved by the BSI in dozens of local communities. (A list of these scions is maintained on Sherlocktron .) While most of the scion societies welcome new members, the BSI does not accept applications for membership. Instead, membership and the awarding of an "Irregular Shilling" are offered to those who have made a name for themselves in local groups or in Sherlockian publications. A list of inductees can be viewed here . The group has published The Baker Street Journal, an "irregular quarterly of Sherlockiana", since 1946.

Because the BSI refused membership to women until 1991, the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes , or ASH, was formed in the late 1960s. Its quarterly journal is entitled The Serpentine Muse. Membership in ASH, like that of the BSI, is by invitation only. In recent years, both clubs have tended to induct the same members. As a result, the ASH now functions as an appendage of the larger organization rather than an independent group. The BSI does not provide any support to its numerous "scion societies". Nevertheless, these societies continue to flourish throughout the U.S. They sponsor various events throughout the year and often feature original works of Sherlockian scholarship. Some notable BSI members have included: [3] The Irregulars - The Ohio Digital Library The Ohio Digital Library Reviews Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins who were the eyes and ears of Sherlock Holmes in some Arthur Conan Doyle stories.

This group constituted the very beginning of what would become M16, the British version of the CIA, and they helped support the fledgling American intelligence service, known at the time as the OSS. Among them were writers Raold Dahl, Ian Fleming, and the flamboyant Canadian industrialist turned professional saboteur William Stephenson, known by the code name "Intrepid", upon whom Fleming would later base his fictional M16 agent James Bond. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant’s narrative uses never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries and interviews to create a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing and moral ambiguity - all in the name of victory. Release date: September 9, 2008 Duration: 11:37:12 Release date: September 9, 2008 Duration: 11:37:12 1 of 1 copy available Available formats Languages English Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins who were the eyes and ears of Sherlock Holmes in some Arthur Conan Doyle stories.

This group constituted the very beginning of what would become M16, the British version of the CIA, and they helped support the fledgling American intelligence service, known at the time as the OSS. Among them were writers Raold Dahl, Ian Fleming, and the flamboyant Canadian industrialist turned professional saboteur William Stephenson, known by the code name "Intrepid", upon whom Fleming would later base his fictional M16 agent James Bond. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant’s narrative uses never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries and interviews to create a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing and moral ambiguity - all in the name of victory. Release date: September 9, 2008 Duration: 11:37:12 Release date: September 9, 2008 Duration: 11:37:12 Recommend this title to the library If this title is purchased: Place me on its wait list and email me when my hold is available. Notify me by email but don't place me on its wait list. Email address is required and must match. Both email addresses must match. Recommend this title Thank you for your recommendation!

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This group constituted the very beginning of what would become M16, the British version of the CIA, and they helped support the fledgling American intelligence service, known at the time as the OSS. Among them were writers Raold Dahl, Ian Fleming, and the flamboyant Canadian industrialist turned professional saboteur William Stephenson, known by the code name "Intrepid", upon whom Fleming would later base his fictional M16 agent James Bond. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant’s narrative uses never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries and interviews to create a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing and moral ambiguity - all in the name of victory. United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia Format OverDrive MP3 Audiobook 319.6 MB OverDrive Listen 319.6 MB Jennet Conant (Author) JENNET CONANT is a journalist who has written profiles for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, and The New York Times. She is the author of the bestselling Tuxedo Park and 109 East Palace. Conant lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.

The Irregulars - Ljudbok - Jennet Conant - Storytel The Irregulars 0.0 0 5 Författare: Jennet Conant Inläsare: Simon Prebble Finns som ljudbok. Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins who were the eyes and ears of Sherlock Holmes in some Arthur Conan Doyle stories. This group constituted the very beginning of what would become M16, the British version of the CIA, and they helped support the fledgling American intelligence service, known at the time as the OSS. Among them were writers Raold Dahl, Ian Fleming, and the flamboyant Canadian industrialist turned professional saboteur William Stephenson, known by the code name “Intrepid,” upon whom Fleming would later base his fictional M16 agent James Bond. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant’s narrative uses never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries and interviews to create a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing and moral ambiguity - all in the name of victory.

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Question: A group of street urchins, the Baker Street Irregulars are employed by whom?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes